This week our Occupli Safety Consultant Aisling Hegarty outlines the benefits of promoting Psychological Safety in the workplace. American Professor, Social Scientist and Author Brené Brown explains that in order for leaders to be successful in their role they should...

  Written by Occupli Consultant Aisling Hegarty Exposure to high levels of noise, either continuously or suddenly, such as loud bang from equipment, can have a number of physiological and psychological effects on workers including stress, tinnitus. Permanent loss...

Did you know that Occupli is an Approved Training Institute by the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council of Ireland for First Aid Training?  Our 3 day PHECC First Aid Responder training program is delivered in line with the PHECC FAR Education and Training Standards and...

By Alan O’Donovan and Jake Bumpus, Safety Engineering Consultants at Occupli Consultancy Machinery Safety Risk Assessments consist of the same basic considerations as any other type of Risk Assessment, and can be carried out by the following step-by-step approach:...

Hi All, Following on from Karen’s article about Competency vs behavioural interviews, we wanted to pop on the give you some info on the STAR method. You may or may not have come across the STAR method previously but if not, let me give you a brief overview.   The...

Occupli are delighted to be supporting Kayls Cole for the 2022 Season. The 18-year-old, Leaving Certificate student is one of the brightest young stars of Irish motorsport and the first female Karter in Ireland to move up to single seater racing and made the bold move...

    The Occupli Recruitment team are always looking for ways to assist our job candidates to prepare for interviews. We’ve found over the years that clients can differ greatly in their approaches when it comes to interviewing process.  Two of the most...

May 8th to 14th is Food Allergy Awareness week.  A food allergy occurs when ones immune system responds to a food that the body has incorrectly recognises as being harmful. As part of the bodies response, antibodies are produced and a complex chain of events begin to...

Explain your employment history If you’re currently in a contract, ensure that you update your LinkedIn profile with this new experience. Consecutive short-term roles in your employment history can be red flags to Hiring Managers. Give information on each short role...

  What are your health and safety training and induction pain points? Well thought out and produced content will assist increase the users engagement with the training material and help them become more invested in the end result, which helps the learner, the training...

The BRC Global Standard for Food Safety was created and has been developed to specify the food safety, quality and operational criteria required to be in place within a food manufacturing organisation to fulfil obligations with regard to legal compliance and...

Since March/April 2020, and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Occupli Consultancy have assessed many home workstations on our virtual platform.  With 1000s of assessments, there was a broad spectrum of home working set-ups viewed to say the least with the good, bad...

The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) have published updated guidance for businesses that are involved in the consignment, loading, unloading and carriage of dangerous goods by road. The new guide provides a summary of the legal provisions of the ADR (Agreement...

I'm Back!! Hello All, CJ the Elf here – Did you know that Occupli Recruitment offer CV & Interview prep to all of our candidates?Pop over here to check out all of today’s #ElfAndSafety Job Vacancies Here or Contact Leah & Odhran directly for assistance Morning...

To prove routine governance work goes on during Covid-19, two new pieces of health and safety-related legislation came into force at the end of November.The new PPE Regulations, replace Schedule 2 of the Safety Health and Welfare at Work (General Application)...